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Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.
Ken Robinson
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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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City of Liverpool
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Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.
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Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things
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Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.
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Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.
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Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.
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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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To be creative you actually have to do something.
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I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
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Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
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There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?
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What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.
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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.
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Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.
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We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.
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The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.
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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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